Oops. Seems that our efforts to slam the casket lid on “Lipstick Jungle” may have been a bit premature.

The New York Times is reporting that the Brooke Shields drama is “breathing again,” thanks to a recent uptick in DVR usage for the show.

Apparently, “Lipstick Jungle” showed signs of life last Friday and picked up 50 percent more viewers when delayed viewing (from DVRs and other devices) was included in the ratings for the episode broadcast a week earlier. Ben Silverman, NBC’s entertainment chief, told the Times that the network will definitely finish the 13 episodes it originally ordered â€” it has four more episodes to go â€” and may order more if the show â€œgrows more.â€

If you missed Monday’s highly anticipated debut of “90210,” no worries. The CW is re-airing the two-hour pilot tonight (8 p.m., Channels 31 and 44).

The show, which benefitted from an avalanche of hype — including cover stories in “Entertainment Weekly” and “TV Guide” — set ratings records for The CW, becoming the highest-rated telecast of any scripted show EVER for The CW in key demographics.

That’s all well and good, but what we really want to know is: Who’s the daddy of Kelly’s (Jennie Garth) kid?

Sometimes, you don’t have to be great to succeed. Case in point: Steven Bochco’s new legal series, “Raising the Bar,” set a cable ratings record on Monday, despite a pilot episode that felt flat and derivative.

“Raising the Bar” attracted 7.7 million viewers in its TNT debut to become the highest-rated launch of a cable series. The premiere outpaced the previous mark set by USA Networkâ€™s â€œThe 4400,â€ which drew 7.4 million viewers in 2004. The biggest launch this season had been USAâ€™s â€œIn Plain Sight,â€ with 5.3 million viewers. Continue Reading →

The Land Down Under has a quirky ratings system. There’s a MA15+ rating but no 18+ rating, meaning if the games are a little too intense for those young’uns, they get banned. Aside from making things tougher for Australian gamers, it also means they may not be getting Fallout 3, according to Reuters.

Sadly, the nation’s Office of Film and Literature Classification disapproves of the drug use. In Fallout 3, players have the option of taking “chems” to boost their stats like strength, etc. Apparently, the board also didn’t like the use of morphine, a prescribed drug, as a power-up.

But hey, if Jack, the hero in Bioshock, can inject himself with stem cells, I don’t really see anything wrong with morphine. Maybe they can just call it morcine, a magic potion that lets you ignore pain.

Apparently, they are if you A) live in the United Kingdom and B) are a minor. According to the bastion of journalism that is the TimesOnline (that is called sarcasm), a report commissioned by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown found that games “harm the development of childrenâ€™s beliefs and value systems and desensitise them to violence.”

To mitigate this problem, the report encourages a video games rating overhaul and one of the peculiar changes is a prominent display of the new rating. The way the Times London puts it, the UK government want games sold like cigarettes, which is an abhorrent idea.

Right now a lot of country’s are taking a look at their ratings systems and seeing if they do the job. In Australia, they’re doing something similar. The attorneys general there are meeting in a big shindig to decide if an overhaul of ratings policy is needed, according to Australia’s ABC News. Gamers there are hoping for an adult rating so they won’t see more games banned.

As for the stuff that’s going on in the UK, it makes me glad I live in the United States. At least here, we put the onus of raising children on the parents, and we know better than to treat games as something illicit.